Ferreira Construction of Stuart, which won the bid for the Sebastian Inlet District's $2.9 million project, will put an 18-foot dredge on the west end of the inlet and a booster dredge near the south side of the State Road A1A bridge.

Pipes will send about 120,000 cubic yards of sand — enough to fill 8,000 to 12,000 average-size dump trucks — to about 1.5 miles of beaches from the McLarty Treasure Museum and south past the Ampersand Beach access.

Another 30,000 cubic yards — that's 2,000 to 3,000 dump trucks — will be stockpiled for emergency beach fill and dune repair. Gopher tortoises were removed recently from the fenced six-acre storage site on the north side of the inlet in Sebastian Inlet State Park.

Shell’s recent success in the US Gulf of Mexico includes its deepwater Dover discovery on Mississippi Canyon 612, reported last year, near its Appomattox platform. The well was drilled by the Deepwater Poseidon ultra-deepwater drillship. Sources: Shell, Transocean.

In lieu of the traditional shovel groundbreaking, Miami City Commission chair Ken Russell, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Miami city manager Emilio T. Gonzalez (pictured l-r) perform the ceremonial water toss to mark the start of the first Miami Forever Bond project tackling flooding and sea-level rise. (Photo by City of Miami Office of Communications)